Senior Visual Designer Jobs in Toronto, ON (NOW HIRING)

As a Senior Designer, you'll help shape the visual expression of one of the country's most recognizable consumer communications brands across its fast-moving social and content business. You'll take established creative ideas and campaign directions and turn them into compelling, cohesive design across organic and paid social, film, experiential activations, presentations, motion content, and other brand touchpoints.

Reporting to a Design Director, you'll work directly with Creative Directors and multidisciplinary creative teams to develop the visual language of an idea and carry it through detailed execution. We're looking for a detailed, versatile, and highly skilled designer who can quickly understand the intention behind an idea, identify the strongest visual approach, and help the brand remain distinctive, culture-forward, and cohesive across a high volume of work.

• Develop and Elevate the Visual Direction: Translate established or partially developed creative concepts into distinctive visual approaches, working with Creative Directors and creative teams to determine how an idea should look, behave, and scale.
• Create Across Social and Content: Design work across organic and paid social, product launches, campaign extensions, film, experiential activations, presentations, and platform-native content.
• Explore and Communicate Design Solutions: Develop mood boards, style explorations, mockups, prototypes, and presentation materials that clearly communicate a range of visual possibilities within an established creative direction.
• Create Concept Art with Generative AI: Use generative image tools to create and refine concept art, visual references, mockups, and presentation imagery that help teams communicate and evaluate ideas before production.
• Build Cohesive Design Systems: Create flexible visual systems that remain consistent and recognizable across formats, products, audiences, and workstreams.
• Design for Social: Create work for how people experience content and advertising across social platforms, considering hierarchy, stopping power, readability, mobile-first composition, platform conventions, and the broader feed.
• Concept and Design for Motion: Develop motion concepts, style frames, storyboards, sequences, transitions, and layouts that clearly communicate how an idea should unfold over time. Provide motion designers and editors with a strong foundation without being expected to animate the work yourself.
• Maintain a High Bar for Craft: Bring strong typography, composition, color, image selection, hierarchy, and attention to detail to both larger campaigns and fast-turn, always-on assignments.
• Stay Close to Culture: Maintain an informed point of view on youth culture, internet culture, and emerging visual styles, translating those influences into original and brand-appropriate work rather than simply replicating trends.
• Mentor and Take Ownership: Provide thoughtful guidance to less-experienced designers while managing multiple assignments and changing priorities with strong organization, dependable communication, and autonomy.
  

• 5+ years of experience in graphic design, brand design, advertising, social content, or an equivalent portfolio that demonstrates the same depth of ability.
• A strong portfolio showing exceptional design craft across social content, campaigns, brand systems, presentations, and motion boards.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma as a primary design and collaboration platform, with the ability to build organized and scalable files and systems.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop and Illustrator, as supporting tools within a Figma-based workflow.
• A sophisticated understanding of typography, composition, hierarchy, color, grid systems, image selection, and visual storytelling.
• The ability to take an established or partially developed creative idea and translate it into a distinctive, cohesive, and scalable visual approach.
• Fluency in designing for social platforms, including an understanding of platform behavior, mobile-first composition, accessibility, and how design can earn attention quickly.
• The ability to concept and design for motion through style frames, storyboards, sequencing, pacing, transitions, and layouts that clearly communicate the intended execution.
• A current and informed point of view on contemporary design, youth culture, internet culture, fashion, entertainment, and emerging visual styles.
• Strong organization, communication, and visual problem-solving skills, with the ability to work autonomously, respond constructively to feedback, and manage several fast-moving projects at once.
• A low-ego, collaborative working style and experience providing useful guidance or mentorship to less-experienced designers.

• Experience using generative AI image tools for concept art, visual development, mockups, and presentation decks, with the taste and technical judgment to direct and refine the results.
• Advanced Photoshop skills, particularly image retouching, compositing, and color correction.
• Hands-on motion design or animation skills, including experience with Adobe After Effects.
• Experience with 3D design, illustration, photography, or other complementary visual disciplines.

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